No fewer than 360,000 security personnel are being prepared for the February 2015 general elections across the country.
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Suleiman Abba, who disclosed this today at the end of a 2-day conference with the theme: Nigeria 2015 Elections and Beyond: Roles of State and Non-State Actors in Mitigating Violence in Elections, said that the security personnel will be deployed to ensure that the elections are violence-free.
He said that already about 300,000 police officers have been trained in partnership with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and development partners even as the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Professor Ade Abolurin also said that 60,000 of his officers will partake in securing life and properties during the election.
The two-day conference was organized by a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Development and Democracy (SCCD) and Centre for Strategic and International Studies (SCIS) at the weekend in Abuja. [myad]
